Much imitated but never equalled, this is the definitive space nightmare. The crew of a commercial spacecraft are stalked by a stowaway, mutating monster of veracious appetite. Weaver puts in a splendidly believable performance as the resourceful Ripley. Taut script and awesome special FX. find out more...

When Coraline's parents move to the back of beyond and bury themselves in their work their seriously bored daughter decides to go in search of her own entertainment. Coraline stumbles upon a small portal that introduces her to an alternative world where her mum and dad care and the shabbiness of her real existence has been transformed into a wonderous place of beauty and adventure, but perfect places can sometimes hide a dark secret, as our heroine soon begins to discover. Directed and created b find out more...

Finally on DVD, this classic portmanteau film stands as a homage to the wonderfully lurid and grisly EC horror comics of the 1950s. Out of the pages of the comic 'Creepshow' come five tales of terror... a tyranical father returns from beyond the grave to claim his Father's Day cake, a meteor crashes to Earth and starts to turn everything into plant-life, a husband plans the ultimate revenge for his cheating wife and her lover, a college hides a hideous and ravenous secret and an ultra-rich entom find out more...

In this, the sequel to Night Of The Living Dead, the flesh eating zombies return. As they shuffle around a deserted shopping mall one can only but reflect on the damage supermarket muzak inflicts on the senses. Good shocker from the master of the undead, George A Romero. find out more...

When London based mid-wife Anna witnesses the death during childbirth of a young teenage mother, she resolves to find the baby's relatives. Unfortunately for all involved this unwittingly leads her into the brutal, merciless world of an Eastern European mafia, ruled with cold-hearted charm and pseudo-benevolence by restauranter Semyon, but it is the mysterious and lethal driver Nikolai, a man who will become either her saviour or her nemesis, who tantalises Anna with information. After their pre find out more...

An elite battalion of police officers, known as BOPE, are pretty much the only thing that the drug dealers living in the favelas of Rio De Janerio fear - aside from each other. But the man who commands them wants out; the unrelenting brutality of his job is beginning to fracture both his mind and family life. The Captain has one goal: to find a worthy replacement, untainted by the corruption that riddles his fellow colleagues, and the potential shows itself in the form of two very different but find out more...

A fantastic looking film with a very pregnant atmosphere. Based on a true story of three girls disappearing on a school outing (only one was found and she remembered nothing). The film transforms this into an allegory for the loss of innocence that is associated with virginity and childhood. find out more...

Arnie is the leader of a tough bunch of professional soldiers down in Central America sorting out a little problem for Uncle Sam. An unexpected hitch is the hunter, an alien sportsman who'd like Arnie's head for his trophy wall! A great action movie - Alien meets Rambo!!! find out more...

A lovely fantasy of a far-off star where one era is ending and another dawning. The prophets decree that only a wee cute (muppet-like) Gelfling can save the world from domination by the evil Skeksis forever. This stunningly made film's imaginative settings could only be from the Henson team. Excellent. find out more...

Hill House is a dark brooding mansion with a chillingly eerie history. Dr Markway, an anthropologist with an interest in psychic phenomena, and an unhealthy penchant for terror, is drawn to the site and, along with two researchers and a skeptic, sets out to unravel the house's mysteries.
A really good early horror made thrilling by the atmosphere, the low key sound effects and the chilling camerawork. find out more...